Re: Can you identify this little ditty?

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 "Rootie Toot Toot" goes way, way back. I'd guess its origins lie
> somewhere before the First World War (my Uncle Ott used to recite it
> as a relic of his turn-of-the-century boyhood).
>
> I think it was originally a self-spoofing chant popular with Christian
> Bible College youth. The male version (as I've most often heard it)
> goes:
>
> Rootie Toot Toot!
> Rootie Toot Toot!
> We are the boys of the Institute.
> We don't smoke and we don't chew
> And we don't go with girls who do!
> Some folks think we don't have fun.
> We don't!
>
> The female version strikes the last two lines and adds "Our class won
> a Bible!", opening the hands like a book and lifting the eyes to
> heaven.
>
> It was adopted and adapted by other groups -- "the Institute"
> becoming, for example, "the Boy Scout Troop."
>
> Finally, "Rootie Toot Toot" achieved a modest immortality in the late
> 50s as the fruity-voiced tag to Homer & Jethro's "Battle of
> Kookamonga."
>
> Abfou